Ok, using the common wisdom I went 100% feral for the first 30-levels or so then respeced restoration to max my healing for instances.

The shock is that I find that soloing "feels" easier with resto-spec instead of feral spec. When I look at the abilities you just get more bang for your buck in restoration vs feral. I just can't see myself switching back to feral....and I spend alot of time in animal form

-I'd rather have +15-20% on a healing ability than 5% more crits
-Natures swiftness is an incredible oh-!#@$ ability
-the reduced chance of spells getting interrupted is HUGE while healing yourself solo (bigger IMHO than any of the feral abilites I had)
-IMOTW provides a significant, constant boost to _everything_ you do
-I don't "miss" any of the other abilities I had, but I know I would miss my resto-benes (may just be my playstyle)

The only thing that has gone down hill is cat-form, without feral spec cat-form truly blows chunks. Ironically I also noticed that bear-form is virtually the same, the attack rate is so slow that the +crit ability didn't help that much, rage comes quickly so I don't miss the rage generators....improved bash was nice, but I used it mainly to make time to heal & natures-focus does a better job in that situation

if I were adjusting the trees I would:
-focus resto on healing-type abilities only
-focus feral on attack/defense, add some hate-generators & defensive enhancements to bear-form
-focus balance on "everything else", stop pretending we will ever be combat-dps and put buff/debuff and non-combat stuff here....IMOTW, fairyfire (including the feral ones), stealth-upgrades, allow us to upgrade beast-sleep to "humanoid sleep"...faster travel form...etc...

If balance must continue to buff our lame ranged attacks, then let us train "wands" in the balance tree and focus more upgrades on reduced casting time....the slow rate of attack is the biggest problem with our attack spells

fyi...one thing that is flawed about the druid class is for the first 10 levels you use wrath alot....but once I got my animal forms I virtually abondened it, definitley makes the wrong impression on young-druids, you feel like a mage for 10 levels!

yea...until they rework the feral tree like planned, nothing there, but feral charge is worth it compared to other trees.

In my opinion, all druids should get the 5 points into Nature's Focus, even if they are planning on going feral after that, that 60% is HUGE HUGE HUGE when soloing.

"-IMOTW provides a significant, constant boost to _everything_ you do"

Could someone tell me what that acronym means?

improved mark of the wild, meaning you've pointed out MoW in the talent tree.